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Art and science

The fictional science of science fiction

Courtesy: MGM/Stanley Kubrick Productions/Kobal/Shutterstock
21 Nov 2019
Taken from the November 2019 issue of Physics World.

As the name suggests, science-fiction movies are just that – fiction. Unfortunately, that sometimes means the science is too. Rhett Allain examines some concepts that sci-fi movies regularly get wrong

Whether they’re about space travel, superheroes, aliens, sentient robots or all the above and beyo

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Rhett Allain is an associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University, US. He is a blogger for WIRED and science adviser for MacGyver and MythBusters, @rjallain, rhettallain.com
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